The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1887-02-25


The Arkansas Senate has passed q law
forbidding the giving Of free railroad
passes.
The signal officer at Ocean City, Nd, re-
ported the Italian bark Quattero from
Buenos Ayers to Delaware breakwatcr,
ashore above that place
The residence Of J. e. Pendergrass, near
Roseville, Ark, was destroyed by fire the
other morning, burning his five sons to
death. They slept up stairs, and could not
be rescued.
JoHx WAGGoNxR and fine team Of horses
Gently. He was trying to wash his wagon.
GENERAL.
II il reported from India that the Chinese
have invaded Northern Burmah.
The schooner Alice NJ. Strople, from
Grand Banks, N. F., reports January 30,
John Forsbcrg, Fred Gustafron and John
Moran, three Of the crew, were drowned
while attending travis by the capsizing Of
| their dory.
NEGOTIATIONS are in progress for re-
newal Of the entente between Germany,
Austria and Italy to cover all points.
EXTRA police are being drafted in County
Clare, Ireland, and evictions have com.
menced on large scale on Lord Cork's es-
tate, near Glenbeigh.
IT Is reported in Warsaw that the British
authorities in India have completed the
Quettah railway to Northwest Afghanistan
and Russia proposes to investigate the mat
ter.
The British House Of Commons refused
to entertain motion for an inquiry into the
administration of the crOfter districts.
THE secret society recently discovered in
ST. Petersburg contemplated no harm 10
the Gar.
GENERAL KAuLBARs has been appointed
military attache to the Russian embassy at
Teheran, the capital of Persia.
AN influential meeting at Leicester, Eng,
has Endorsed the action of the silver party
at Washington and unanimously adopted a
resolution declaring that nothing short of
free coinage Of silver wonld support prices
in the interest of the debtor classes.
The GuiOn line steamer Wisconsin went
ashore off Patchogue, L. l., on the 10th,
with her rudder post broken. No other
damage was reported.
IT is reported that all the tenants in the
Bodyke estates in Ireland are armed with
rifles, and propose to resist evictions.
KING HUMBERT, of Italy, has given $4,000
for the relief of the families of the men
killed in the recent battles in the Soudan.
THE corporation of Belfast has awarded
f5,5l1 compensation for damages inflicted
in the recent riots in that CITY.
AN Odessa dispatch says the recent riot
at the Demidoff spinning mills was occa-
stoned by the discharge of 800 women and
children in accordance with q new law.
Chief Orloff and his assistant, Sakaroff,
were murdered by the mob and other Off
Gals had narrow escapes. The Offices at the
mill were completely wrecked and the en-
tire plant. including machinery, was demol
ished. The outbreak was fomented by so
cialists.
ADvICEs from Pagas state that King
Tofa, of Porto Novo, India, has practiced
horrible cruelties toward subordinate
princes, cutting out their eyes and tongues,
breaking jaws and scalping and burning
them.
THE British ship Swan, heavily laden
with cotton, was recently ashore in the
Gulf of Mexico west of Cedar Keys.
FIVE men were killed and two badly in.
iured near Levant, Ontario, recently by a
fall of earth in the Wilbur mines.
THE address IN reply to the Queens
speech was adopted by the British Parlia-
ment on the 18th by 2S3 to 20.
THE head cashier of the Banco Industrial
Of Havana, Cuba, has disappeared with
s55,OOO in gold of the institution.
RrssIA's attempts to secure German sup
port to her Bulgarian policy having failed,
it Is learned, according to a dispatch from
Berlin, that as a last resort she has offered
to observe complete neutrality in case of q
conflict between France and Germany.
EMIL Holub, the African explorer, has
reached Shospong, Bechuanaland, in des- |
titute condition, his camp on Lake Bang
welo having been attacked and plundered
by natives and his fellow explorer, Zotner,
murdered. Holub was absent at the time |
of the attack
The Russian mail steamer Czariza, from |
Constantinople for Alexandria, has found |
cred off Syria.
IT is reported in st. Petersburg that two |
naval officers recently arrested for con.
spiracy against the Government have been
executed.
Six men lost their lives recently by an
explosion in the Clutch colliery, Rhondda
valley, Wales.
THE Swiss Government has seized a nihil.
list printing Office in Geneva, together with
q large lot of type and pamphlets.
PRINCE BIsMARCK's Berlin organ declares
that the Reichstag will again be dissolved
unless the Government has a majority.
THE natives of the Friendly islands found
guilty of the murder of missionary Baker
have been executed by the King of those
islanis.
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